Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I went out , feeling distinctly lonely , and wandered through the empty , narrow streets of lunch-time Parma until the time really came to go back to school . |
| 2 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 3 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 4 | The Minoans were capable of producing a large surplus of olive oil which could have been exported ; some of the oil filling the store-rooms of the Knossos Labyrinth at the time of the 1380 BC fire may have been awaiting export . |
| 5 | Comfortably and expensively furnished , the apartments were staffed by servants many of whom had been with the lady Alianor from the time of her marriage . |
| 6 | Derek , who was Catering Manager on board the flotel the MSV Tharos at the time , was directly involved on the night of the disaster . |
| 7 | A similar decision had been made in respect of Uttar Pradesh by the time the poll date was announced in April [ see also above for Haryana ] . |
| 8 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 9 | Eliot had arrived in South Africa by the time The Cocktail Party opened in New York on 21 January 1950 , at the Henry Miller Theatre . |
| 10 | The Commonwealth leaders had , with difficulty , produced a common position on the lifting of sanctions against South Africa by the time the final communiqué came to be agreed on Oct. 21 . |
| 11 | Second woman home was Bernie Gribben in a time of 1.45.46 . |
| 12 | Robert referred to the recommendations and suggestions made by Alison Precious and Karen Jessop after the time they spent working on the reception desk and mentioned particularly the question of resiting the switchboard . |
| 13 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 14 | Iris elected to remain with Philippe Bonard for the time being and Jack undertook to drive her back when she was ready . |
| 15 | Detectives said they were anxious to trace a man who was near the junction of Whitehouse Loan and Thirlestane Road around the time of the attack at 2am on 6 February . |
| 16 | But what about the explanation from the Durham County ambulance service general manager that the Middleton-in-Teesdale ambulance was on its way to an emergency in Newton Aycliffe at the time ? |
| 17 | Durham Ambulance Service chiefs have said the single ambulance on duty at the town 's station was on an emergency call in Newton Aycliffe at the time . |
| 18 | Injury has also cruelly affected the progress of tall seamer Jason de la Pena at a time when he looked likely to stake his first-team claim . |
| 19 | I 'm contributing to a book on art , and as Brangwyn worked with William Morris for a time , and some of his work is exhibited here , I thought I 'd take a look-see for myself . |
| 20 | They were appearing in pantomime at the Bristol Hippodrome at the time . |
| 21 | The third chapel on the right is called the Crucifixion chapel because it contains a wooden crucifix carried in procession by San Carlo Borromeo during the time of the plague of 1576 . |
| 22 | As in the autumn of 1981 , it seemed to be losing its way , with doubts over government support for British Leyland , ministers attacked over repeated strikes by secondary school teachers , and criticisms also over Britain 's support for President Reagan at the time of bombing raids on Libya . |
| 23 | A doctor from the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital who treated Mr Hoad at the time said the spiral fracture of the arm was caused by a rotation force , a twisting of the arm . |
| 24 | The station at Stamford was built in a plain Tudor style and was described by the Stamford Mercury at the time as ‘ in an Elizabethan Style similar to Burghley House ’ . |
| 25 | No doubt she encouraged Mr Macmillan at a time when he needed some encouragement ; and there seemed little danger to the Constitution in this fact being revealed in 1973 to those readers of Sir Harold 's memoirs who had stayed the course through the Winds of Change , the Blast of War , and the Tides of Fortune to the End of the Day . |
| 26 | ‘ Matthew Epstein was managing me at Harold Shaw at the time , ’ he recalls . |
| 27 | Mr Mummery at the time was a police dog trainer . |
| 28 | Unable to justify the privatisation of a natural monopoly on familiar grounds such as competition and consumer choice , the government chose instead to emphasise regulation , boasting that privatisation would separate the provider from the regulator — or , to use a phrase much quoted by Mr Howard at the time , the gamekeeper from the poacher . |
| 29 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 30 | SYDNEY SCHANBERG , bottom right , was The New York Times 's correspondent in Phnom Penh at the time of its fall . |